10 things you may not know about Cowboys center Travis Frederick

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7. Before being selected by the Cowboys, Frederick was a computer engineering student at Wisconsin. This is what he told the Wisconsin State Journal: “The basics of engineering is problem solving. The problems are solved by really sitting down and thinking about everything that is going on and finding a solution. That correlates to being on the field. You have to see what’s going on with the defense and maybe it’s something you haven’t seen before. You have to figure out how to solve that problem, how to get everybody in the right spots.”

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